SPARQL

“SPARQL is a recursive acronym and stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language). It is an RDF query language, that is, a semantic query language for databases, able to retrieve and manipulate data stored in Resource Description Framework (RDF) format.”

~ Wikipedia on SPARQL

Copyleft or free-of-charge implementations of SPARQL endpoint ability producing software alternatives

• w:Virtuoso Universal Server - http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/download/

Tools

• http://d2rq.org/ - Enables writing queries in SPARQL that actually access traditional relational database and receiving results and RDF graphs. Could be very useful as glue code between MediaWiki's data in the MariaDB and the public and private SPARQL databases